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A bus pass.?? It's pretty pathetic that someone can just fill in a form and apply for a bus pass and that is accepted. All of the hoops that we have to jump through to get one AND PLOD ACTUALLY COMES OUT TO YOUR HOUSE. Anyway what about the 25yd swimming certificate. Not that I'll bother to turn out. Ps I do have a passport and a driving license which do quantify as acceptable photo I'd.

Amongst lots of different forms of acceptable photo ID that you now need to show to vote. A firearms or shotgun certificate is not accepted.?? Bus pass is ok. Lots of random things but not a firearm or shotgun cert. SO has basic asked why these are not acceptable to vote in the local borough council elections. ...... turnout for these elections is pretty low as it is. Is there a massive voter fraud that needs regulation.? Seeing that about 2 old boys and a dog turn out for local elections, I imagine that the turnout % will be pretty poor. Do you think that a 25yd swimming cert might be acceptable. ?

I bought an AyA xxx 12 gauge and a 20 gauge Ignacio Urgachea from there BUT they moved from there out to the clay ground out in Sturdy and that shut last year. They sold it off for a housing development. More quick profit. Going going gone. I was going on the price of the cartridges.

Ha ha. Donkeys years ago a friend and his mate were out in the back garden with their air guns and a blue tit was perched on the washing line. Matey ups with his gat gun and drops the blue tit.!!!! The woman next door was at the kitchen sink and saw the event.!!!! She comes storming out and accuses matey boy of murdering the poor defenseless bird.... matey picks the bird up gives it a couple of strokes.? He says to the woman that the bird is just laying down having a rest. 😁👍. Look he says as he throws the bird up in the air. Suddenly the bird fired up on all cylinders and flew off down the garden to land in a tree. "There yar", says matey to the woman. It was just avin a snooze. She replied that he was a wicked little sod and that the would be having a word with his father about it. Matey boys father did get an ear bashing about it and matey was told not to do it again. I bet that the blue tit had been layed out and had come to. It probably had a bit of a headache. Blue tit at 5 paces. Lethal weapon.

Deadly on those big black spiders at 5 paces. 😊😊😊.

Possibly 1968 ...69. Years ago Geenfields in Canterbury was a GOOD gunshop. BUT later times it wasn't worth crossing the doorstep. They hadn't got a clue. I went in there for cartridges and got asked if I wanted fisherman's waders.?? NO cartridges says I.... The sales person asks another one..... do we sell cartridges.? ..?? We got fishing rods says his mate. Very slippery slope...

Quote......Putins Russia invasion is going to go down as one of the most successful military operations in the last 80 years. What as.? the most effective way to dispose of a load of junk military eqpt and reduce the population. AND to show the world how not to conduct a military campaign. Also it might have failed to register that vast amounts of modern military hardware is being constantly being supplied to Ukraine and that despite throwing tens of thousand of conscripts and gaol prisoners to their deaths. when it drys out a bit and the Ukraine forces advance how long do you think that the rag tag and two bob Russian army will last before they turn tail. the game will soon be afoot .

There is a woman near me that spends time walking the local roads picking the rubbish out of the hedges and the grass verges. She collect bags and bags... bin liners of residue. It is people leaving the village that are chucking it out of car windows..... in each outgoing direction the rubbish is mainly noticable on the left hand side ..... so it is being dumped by people on the left hand side of cars..... the passengers who are leaving the village to go somewhere. They get anywhere from about 300 yards and launch the cans / bottles out the window. Still the councils don't help by not taking stuff and charging a fortune for stuff taken to the tip. Our council charges £40 a year for the Brown bin for the garden waste and that is on top of the rates to take the other bins of recycling stuff. They recon that it costs them.. I know of a bloke that weighs in about 2 tons of nails, screws and other metalwork from scrap wood that goes for wood pellets. The nails,screw money is cash money and goes into his pocket / pensions. There's money where's there's muck.

So where have all these gems of proven data sprung from. ? Have you actually watched the footage because the incident happened in broad daylight.

Seeing as this situation had been go in on for over half an hour it's hardly surprising the the main camera which is housed in a ball turret under the chin would be turned round towards the two jets that had been harassing the drone and dumping fuel over it. Does Russia need to be painted bad again after the atrocities and war crimes that have been dumped on the Ukrainian people.

Future,? There was an undertaker on a shoot recently who was saying about a dead woman that they had to deal with that had died of cancer. She was so stick thin but her silicone in plants were like footballs. He said that it was quite upsetting to see and he had dealt with all manner or horrific sights such as people who had met their end under trains and vehicles torn and entangled in the machinery parts. And people who had died in fires etc.

The first construction site that I went on as an apprentice mechanical engineer was on the site of a graveyard dating back to the Napoleonic wars. They were digging up loads of skeletons which had to be carefully located, measured and logged by the local archaeologist group, who carefully put the bones into labelled tea chests. when all of the construction work was done all of these skeletons had to be reburied with REVERENCE. With a proper religious service overseen by bishop of the diocese. I remember though that there was one skull being used as an ashtray in the site office which I did think was a bit of disrespectful of the person who that skull derived from.

Women do not have a sense of humour with men. Gratitude occasionally but no humour. You know when it's right.

Yep that's all very true.

Thanks to everyones input. As far as I see it this is a problem looking for a solution. You could be an older person. A female. A young person or me. Modern cars have BIG wheels . The days of 165x13 are gone. Saying that both myself and the Mrs have only had 2 punctures in 35 years. BUT IN THE DAUGHTERS CASE. She is a nurse that travels on the road and if it can happen it possibly will at some stage. I think the the resolution to this problem for her is one of the motoring agencies like the AA or RAC.

Well thanks for the replies. The tyres on the vehicle are brand new and she will be just on std black roads and getting a flat isn't an everyday occurrence but if it can happen ,,,, at some stage it will happen. She lives down near Folkstone and a lot of her travel is up the motorway to Ashford on the motorway so the possibility of asking someone is smaĺ because people don't stop to help on otorways or most places. Nòwadays people don't want to get involved. sometimes Her husband would be available but a lot of the time he is all over the country. I did YouTube this a one bloke had the idea of rolling big 4x4 wheels up a shovel handle. Our new Honda didn't come with a Jack or a spare wheel it just had a compressor and a pot of gloop.! If that didn't work then it was call out a tyre firm or recovery. A problem to be resolved before it strikes.

One of the daughters has been issued with a Daihatsu Terios. The spare wheel carrier is mounted on the back door. OK When she gets a puncture it's not beyond her abilities to get the spare off of the carrier with care, but there is no way that she has the physical strength to (A) lift / man handle a wheel of that size and weight up onto the door carrier AND (B) TO lift the wheel up into the rear boot area. WHICH may be filled with shopping, kids stuff, pushchair etc. Anyone got any bright ideas about handling spare wheels which will be dirty and probably wet.

At primary school the boys toilet was outside. There was a wall with gutter, the wall had been blackjacked. All the boys used to have a competition as to who could wee the highest up the wall. over the wall was the caretakers garden and one day when the boys were practicing they heard the caretakers wife call out to the caretaker..... Bert I think that its started to rain. ..😊😊😊😨😨😨

It's strange how the natural event is buckled in this country since queen Victoria's times. We all used to laugh/ be shocked about public street toilets in France. I know of a Brand new public build in which there are 3 toilets which are just labeled toilet. Anyone can use them. Invalids, men, women. They're just toilets. Alternatively I did know of an industrial yard where there was a proper toilet BUT in the back of a shed there was a cranked funnel nailed to the back wall that all of the blokes used to pee into. Even high up executives use to use it when in the yard. It was just easier than going through the main building to use the proper toilet. The neck of the funnel just went out through the shed wall and dischsrged into a ditch out the back. The rushes and stinging nettles were about 8 ft tall.!!

South west Kent. Just bands of rain coming through all day. Foggy in Hastings this afternoon. Earlier in the day between bands of rain I saw and felt the SUN and for about a minute it was really hot. Don't despare people, the sun will return and some people will be heard moaning...... ohh it's too hot,,, i can't put up with it. AND fat ginger people will be lobster red and have to be hosed down so that they don't melt and catch fire. ROLL ON global warming.

South west Kent. Very thin dust this morning lasted about an hour. Rain most of day, heavy at times. Dry for hours now, cold. It's just been grey and miserable for a long time now. We need the sun.

What's it all matter. All they want to do is enjoy life and have fun. theyre no harm to anyone. That's all i wanted to do with the girls when I was at school. All we were told was that we would experience a sort of tickling feel in if we got near the girls. ???? 😆😆 😇😇😇. I told my mate that he might get this feeling if he tied his bits to the tow bar on the back of the woman PE teachers car. Boys do silly things. Recently I read that there had been a survey of kids under 11 as to if they had seen porn. I think that it was something like 60% had watched porn and most on a regular basis.

I'm surprised .. nay ... slightly disappointed that my post and I went harranged to a standstill. For being Reactionary and me being a miserable *** by the bar prospers brigade. BUT I'm not repentant. If I had the funds to buy the place I'd have no compunction at all the bulldozer would be in first thing Monday morning. I've known the pub for more than 40 odd years and its only ever had one decent couple, landlord/ landlady in all that time. Previous to the present owner the village do gooders created an association for people to attempt to purchase it to create a village hub, pub, post office. Initially it was thrown open to a general public where people could sort of pledge that they could allocate an amount of funds to purchase the place. subsequently a selected few of THE RIGHT SORT, were invited to private meetings to select a committee and steering group. When the place came up for auction they had about two Bob in comparisonto what it eventually went under the hammer for. A local woman that I know was a keen hound to get her wad out and get involved..... for the general public good. I managed to convince her tat it would be more effective to Chuck the wad on her fire to keep warm by rather than Chuck it in a bottomless pit that was the pub. I wonder how long it will last considering it might open for a couple of hours randomly now and then. Bizarre.

We used to have two pubs, down to one. It sort of went dormant due to the owner / lack of trade. A new couple have bought it and spent a fortune on it. Still not a lot of trade and they sort of open and close as they please. Sort of like a hobby. It's always been a dead end although it's location is good. As far as I'm concerned the sooner it's bulldozed and a few executive houses put up in its place the better. Over the years the place has been a pain in the rear. Or the behaviour of the customers and the General disruption. There are the bank holiday dos of the BBQs with clouds of billowing smoke and the dismal dreary folk singer. So bad that we've gone out for the day. There have been cars damaged and stolen by people who have viewed a car parked outside someone's house as a free taxi to get back home and abandoned somewhere. The General junk thrown in our garden as the throw outs go to where ever they are going, such as bottles, glasses, paper and plastic, knickers, condoms. Cars and bikes racing up and down the road one of which mounted the kerb and knocked the fence down and drove off. Parked cars being keyed and druggies breaking into cars for anything of value. Groups of users singing, swearing and just being unsocial as they go home. People spewing up or taking a leak on / over the garden fence / gate. Drug dealing etc. The sooner it capsizes and is bulldozed we will hold a BIG party. Hopefully the cost of living rise will last long enough to see the game up.

The bloke that I was apprenticed under was a young bloke (Tom) back in WW2 and back then petrol was dyed red and called pool petrol. You were issued coupons which were issued on the basis of distance getting to work. if you were found out on the road other than going to work you were heavily fined and might have the petrol allowance removed.! Meaning that you might have to either walk or cycle to work. (Tom) being a young lad mechanic wanted to go and watch the speed way down in Eastbourne which was off limits. He got around this by the ingenuity of having a second fuel tank for his BSA motorbike and a second Anal monoobloc carb rejetted to run on METHANOL. He skimmed the head to get a higher compression ratio. When he did the Change over, all that it took was two bolts on the seat, one bolt holding the fuel tank, disconnect the fuel line to the card, two bolts on the carb and unscrew the carb slide cap. And the reverse. Probably about 15 minutes works. Methanol was freely available and not PETROL, so ok. I don't know if my modern Honda would run on it or what the emissions would be. Or go over to LPG or go on an electric bike. The price of electric vehicles is VV high. Back to old days, walk, bike, horse and cart.?